We start off with a discussion about our now-smarter home. A lot happened in a week, and we now have a Smart Speaker (Amazon Echo), a Smart Thermostat (Nest 2.0), and a Smart Lock (Kwikset Kevo). We talk about the plusses and minuses of each, the actual usefulness of each, and some upcoming features announcedContinue reading “Our Smarter Home, Android Updates, and a LOT of Star Wars”
Our Amazon Echo arrived earlier than anticipated. After an initial estimate of April 24th, Mitcz got an email on Tuesday that it was on its way and would arrive Thursday. It arrived the following day (today). So, as promised, we unboxed it here on this episode and ran “Alexa” through her paces. We even Periscope’dContinue reading “Bonus : Amazon Echo Unboxing, First Impressions”
Quite a few tangents in this episode as we successfully test and broadcast with Periscope, and Mitcz explains why it didn’t work last time. Since his issues with Periscope were related to two-factor authentication, Mitcz rants about his frustration with companies not fully supporting the two-factor authentication they themselves developed (and explains WTF two-factor authentication means).Continue reading “Periscope Redux, Passwords, Mitcz’s Apple Policy, Boobs are Awesome, Apple Watch”
Finally moving past “He Who Shall Not Be Named”, we get into a user-submitted suggestion of discussing Meerkat and Periscope and the drama that surrounds it. We even tried to use Periscope live on the air, and came to the conclusion that it’s too buggy to bother with and quite a load of crap. WeContinue reading “Meerkat vs Periscope, HDMI Computer Sticks, Amazon’s Dash Buttons and Phishing”
As promised during last week’s episode, Mitcz finally watched CitizenFour and took copious notes. In this episode, Mitcz discusses the few issues he had with the documentary itself, does some fact-checking, runs a ridiculous math explanation on the numbers Edward Snowden used during the doc, and expresses his feelings about Snowden. Alex disagrees with Mitcz’sContinue reading “Edward Snowden, CitizenFour, Patriotism, and the NSA”
Mitcz and Alex discuss a particularly embarrassing Safari bug as it relates to privacy browsing – aka “porn mode”, while Mitcz rants about some tech companies’ refusals to actually acknowledge that sometimes people just want to be filthy. The discussion evolves into discussions of blocking and flagging content on various websites, privacy implications, and theContinue reading “Unspoken Porn, Automated Cars, The Future”
I know. I know! When Straight Riffin ended, I said “I’ll have a whole new network up in about a month”. I uhh.. missed that goal by almost 2 years. But, here it is! After many months of development (and several waiting-for-launch pre-recorded podcast episodes), we’ve got ourselves a nice little Riffopolis.com to call home.Continue reading “Let’s Get Ready to Riff”
It’s a question for our modern age. With our advances in society, law, technology, and most importantly : science — is there still a need for a higher power? How does a belief in a god hold sway against scientific discoveries that oppose, almost by definition, the very foundations that inspired the initial beliefs? In this inaugural episodeContinue reading “Do We Still Need God?”
In this inaugural episode, Mitcz Gets High with his close friend and fellow comedian Justin Rupple. The original aim of the episode was to just run through a quick story about having gone Speed Dating the previous night. However, because Mitcz was high, they ended up talking for almost 3 hours. Mitcz first begins withContinue reading “with Justin Rupple”
This is it, riffolonians. The FINAL episode in the epic saga that is and was Straight Riffin. Dwayne Perkins brought it hard, fast, loud and hilarious like only Dwayne could. We talked about success, the ridiculous chasm between platinum status between countries of the world, language barriers, Dwayne’s “CAKE” system (and Mitcz’s attempt to re-wordContinue reading “Dwayne Perkins”
